Why unofficial user repositories

Since the AUR only allows users to upload PKGBUILD and other package build related files, but does not provide a means for distributing a binary package, a user may want to create a binary repository of their packages elsewhere.

However: Be advised, if you only put your packages in your private repo and neglect AUR, your package will never make it into community repo nor a central storage space(AUR) which is bad for users, since they will have to add 'YetAnotherThird-party-Repo'(YATR) to their /etc/pacman.conf which will make it slower to update. But the main reason you should not have repo-only packages is that not having packages in a central place confuses and gives users a second job in that they now have to search for Repositories in addition to Packages.

Thus the best way to have a private repo is to offer it as a supplement to the AUR for those users who don't want to compile. You should try to avoid to offer it as a substitute.

The community repository, maintained by the TUs

[community]
Server = ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/community/os/i686/

The community repository is included in pacman's default configuration, but disabled. You can enable it by removing the # in these two lines:

List of PUR (unofficial user repositories) | x86-64

[stalwart64]
## Few good programs official arch64 repos lack. See http://stalwart.hopto.org/~stalwart/?page_id=95 for more info
Server = http://stalwart.hopto.org/~stalwart/arch64
[olympus]
## by zeus
## see http://archlinux.org.ru/forum/index.php/topic,39.0.html for more info
Server = http://zeus.hovel.ru/archlinux/olympus/

Add your own repository to this list

If you have your own repository, please add this to this list, so that all other users knows where to find your packages.